Barracuda Report Focuses on Data Protection in the Cloud

Barracuda today released key findings from a global study that focuses on data protection strategies.

The research reveals new details about the attitudes and
approaches SMBs have when it comes to backing up and recovering data, the
impact that cloud and SaaS solutions are having on data protection strategies,
and confusion that is exposing firms to significant risk.

Overall the study shows that the migration to the cloud is
well underway, but organizations are not protecting their cloud and SaaS data
effectively.

Key findings include:

• Data protection is becoming more challenging to achieve
with the rise of multi-cloud and multi-site backup.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents are responsible for backing up more than two sites. Thirty-five percent are using multiple cloud services.

• IT decision makers are warming up to the cloud, and the
use of the cloud as a secondary backup location is on the rise. Sixty-four
percent of global organizations say they replicate backup data to the cloud. Thirty-six
percent still do not follow this best practice.

• IT teams view email, SQL, and proprietary application data as the most common workloads to protect with backup, but SaaS data is not viewed as critical, which puts business continuity at risk. Only 16 percent of respondents report that they back up their SaaS data.

• Office 365 is one of the most popular cloud-based
productivity platforms, but Office 365 confusion is exposing firms to
significant risk. More than 60 percent of SMBs are using Office 365 to drive
business success.